Tangible Earth, the world's first interactive digital globe, shows dynamic changes in the world using interactive technology.

This exhibition shows how seasonal associations permeate Japanese art and culture.

Examples of tea utensils that embody seasonal changes are on view.

This exhibition presents 32 color and black-and-white photographs from the museum's permanent collection made during the past three decades by nine established and emerging artists: Tina Barney, Virginia Beahan, Christopher Dawson, Muriel Hasbun, Martina Lopez, Elaine O'Neil, Larry Sultan, Margaret Strickland, and Carrie Will.

Two artists create site-specific works in response to each other's style and artworks.

This year's orchid exhibition showcases a variety of exotic live orchids that testify to the Chinese love for this enchanting plant.

Photographs document the Laguna Pueblo tradition of Grab Day, a community-wide prayer of abundance, thanks, and renewal.

The orchid -- a symbol of friendship, loyalty, and patriotism -- is the focus of the 20 Chinese paintings on view.

See 28 early drawings and lithographs by Navajo artist  R.C. Gorman (1931-2005) that foreshadow the monumental women and Indian madonnas that brought the artist international acclaim.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's presidential inauguration, the museum displays five portraits of Kennedy.

On view are nine photographs of the Kennedys taken by Richard Avedon for Harpers Bazaar.

Features a selection of Japanese screens from the nearly 200 screens held by the Freer Gallery.

The moods evoked in seasonal Chinese landscapes are explored.

Steinway's diary -- with the first entry beginning just eight days after the first shots of the Civil War were fired -- spans 36 years of one of the most dynamic periods in American history.

The portrait of Stephen Colbert (b. 1964, Washington, D.C.), the mock pundit from the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, is back on view.

On view in several cases are photographs and other archival materials that illustrate the 54-year history of the Maid of Cotton beauty pageant.

See Hans Op de Beeck's film Staging Silence with dreamlike black-and-white scenes evoking vintage film and the suspense of film noire.

This small exhibition reveals how Americans used entertainment to distract themselves during a turbulent year when the country was recovering from the Great Depression and World War II loomed -- 1939.

This first major survey of the work of Alexis Rockman (b. 1962) features approximately 50 paintings and works on paper to trace the artist's development from the mid-1980s to the present.

This exhibition of some 35 objects that have recently been added to the museum's collection spans centuries of American history and culture.